Sunday, May 27, 2012

Harvard University Has Had Enough

In the reaction to the Boston Globe's controversial article
on Harvard's EEOC reports which listed Elizabeth Warren as a Native
American, one particular revelation has gone largely unnoticed. Alan Ray,
the administrator who filed diversity reports during Warren's tenure,
distances the university from any responsibility for erroneously listing
her as a Native American.

[Ray] said through a spokeswoman that he "never encouraged any
faculty member to list himself or herself in a particular way." Ray
added that Harvard "always accepted whatever identification a faculty
member wanted to provide," a characterization another highly placed
former Harvard administrator backed up.

In previous reports by Breitbart News, there has been no definitive
evidence--no silver bullet--that Warren is the one who volunteered the
idea she was a minority. The evidence discovered by authors John Sexton
and Michael Patrick Leahy suggest it is very likely, but the possibility
has not yet been established as fact. However, with this statement,
Harvard has denied the only other likely explanation for EEOC reports
listing Warren as a Native American.

Either Warren suggested to Harvard, as she presumably did in her Pow Wow Chow byline,
that she was a Cherokee, or Harvard, either from her appearance or from
some historical evidence, deemed her Cherokee. However, as has been
explored in excruciating detail, there is no genealogical evidence
for Warren's assumed heritage, and her blonde-haired, blue-eyed
appearance does nothing to suggest any kind of minority background.

About Me

I was born in Tombstone, Arizona, but moved to California in 1959 when labor strikes at the copper mines devastated the Arizona economy. I've been moving north ever since. Pullman is as far north as I care to live and I'm looking toward reversing the drift.